Art: Shadow of the Bridge

Erich Heckel is old80 this week. The vital and violent movement that
he and two colleagues, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and the late Ernst
Kirchner, started nearly six decades ago is now a part of both history
and legend. There is proof, in a current show of Heckel's work in the
stately main hall of the Stuttgart Staatsgalerie, that passion and
emotion once flamed as hotly in this old man as ever in any
iconoclastic rebel. But he now lives quietly and serenely in an
orchard-ringed farmhouse on Lake Constance, sometimes reminiscing about
a youth...